ESUM

The ESUM project was initiated by Dr. Reinard König at the Chair of Information Architecture ETH Zurich. The idea behind is to create a mobile sensor unit that will measure, analyse and correlate ambient and biometric data from a subject’s itinerary in an urban context, so as to correlate environmental qualities with psychosomatic effects.

The author’s task was to design, develop and document the hardware and software of a stable prototype, to be replicated by research labs around the world.

The software was developed as a Visual Studio C# console application. The ESUM case is made from plywood and partly plexiglas, and can be laser cut and assembled in less than 1 hour. The fabrication plans, software source code and an extended setup and documentation handbook guide will be published soon on public repositories, open to collective further development.

ESUM is currently a joint research project between The Chair of Information Architecture ETH Zurich and Bauhaus-University of Weimar, with ties to other interdisciplinary research groups at ETH Zurich and the Future Cities Lab ETH in Singapore.